Giving Up Quotes

We have to choices in this world; we either try to survive or to give up.

I don't think you can really expect to win a hockey game giving up three power-play goals. In reality, you cant give up those and that's the difference in the hockey game.

Russia is not going to give up easily on Syria. They've had a relationship with that country since 1955. It's very close to them.

The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.

The only advice I can really give to the young filmmakers is to be persistent, don't give up, and keep watching and making as many movies as you possibly can.

The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest.

Knowing that a paradox is required for life as we know it to exist allows me to give up trying constantly to understand it and instead just feel it and enjoy it.

A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to be careful how you describe and define 'nature.

The lonely heart you see tonight will not give up without a fight.

I'm proud by not being frustrated, jealous or too confused by remaining creative. It's very easy to give up, and to keep going and sticking to your own ethos is very difficult.

Sometimes, when tragedy strikes, people give up hope that they can expect anything more from life, when the real quest is finding out what life expects from them.

Being a musician is to live, not to survive. Surviving is going to work every day and giving up your liberty and your time. When you do music, it's a free life.

And I figured you'd drive a four-hour round-trip before giving up your car to someone else

In an undertone, I murmured, "This isn't over. I won't give up on you." "I've given up on you," he said back, voice also soft. "Love fades. Mine has.

I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books.

I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility....And the paradox of it all has been that whenever I give up I seem to do better.

Do you give up?" Shezmu bellowed. "No!" I yelled. "No, we don't give up. We will name you. Just . . . Gosh, you're quite well muscled, arn't you? Do you work out?

I prayed the monsters would give up. Or that perhaps Philip of Macedonia would climb back to the terrace (do crocodiles climb?) and renew the fight.

You are loved by the One who knows you best. God's love will never disappoint you and never give up on you.

I'm just not a quitter and I just never, ever give up. I was forced to adapt because if I didn't, I was losing inspiration only doing what I was doing.

Sometimes when the going gets tough, people give up.

To be a sports person... There is a never say die attitude you have to have to succeed. The first thing I say is "die..." If you beat me, I just give up.

You can change anything about yourself quite quickly. All you have to do is give up the belief system that says that it takes a long time to change.

We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will be protected, and so on.

There are easily accessible programs to help aging drivers maintain their skills, or recognize when they need to give up their cars.

The heart never forgets, never gives up, the territory marked off for those who came before.

If you give up on democracy, you might as well give up on everything.

Anybody who has had experience of poetesses knows that they may forgive a punch on the jaw, but never a suggestion that they would be wiser to give up versifying.

Never give up if you really want something, keep plugging away at it and your dreams can come true.

We fail because we give up, and we give up because we never had a plan in the first place

You can never give up-athletics taught me that. You must work hard, prepare, learn from your losses and continue to fight until the very end.

Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.

We must educate ourselves and others about our precious civil liberties to ensure that we never accept demands that we give up our Constitution so that the government can pretend to protect us.

I'm convinced that you never have to give up liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up your liberties.

Don't give up on your ideals. Don't compromise. Don't turn to expediency. And for heaven's sake . . . don't get cynical.

I want to give up every single day of my life, but I can't. I'm obsessed.

I asked Secretary [Robert] Gates, what did they get in return for giving up the nuclear shield of Poland and the Czech Republic? And you know what his answer was? Nada. They got nothing.

It was a phenomenon I noticed many years ago. Young people were just giving up every bit of information about themselves they could.

[Donald] Trump doesn't give up and let [the Democrats] have what they want. But people around Trump and some others in the world of politics do.

If you don't love and believe in what you're building, you're likely to give up at some point along the way.

Fitzcarraldo is that metonymic character that's unwilling to give up on his dreams. Meeting Walter was the point in which all of these dreams coalesced into a very real person with a very real story.

In a gambit you give up a Pawn for the sake of getting a lost game

I love acting, and it was really important to me to give it a real shot.

but accepting help doesn‟t have to mean giving up control.

Cause I rely on my illusions, to keep me warm at night. I've denied in my capacity to love, and I am willing to give up this fight

Be ashamed of your hatred. Give up hatred and be quiet.

If you give up, then you can never win again. Giving up is not an option. You cannot give up on anything.

We happily give up our freedom and our income in exchange for having someone else take responsibility for telling us what to do next.

Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.

Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.